Badges and check-in
On the day, on a phone, at the door: one scan, a name on screen, a list that updates for the whole team.
What it does
A browser, a camera, and nothing to install on the team’s phones.
- Badge scanning on a phone, with no app to install; the badge can be printed on arrival.
- A live list: what one desk checks in appears on the others.
- Workshop attendance session by session, separate from entry to the event.
- A “front desk” role that checks people in without changing anything: a one-day helper opens neither pages nor the programme, and you can remove their access to statistics.
- Badge designs drawn on a free canvas, categories assigned by rules, and printing in batches, at the front desk or at a self-service kiosk.
- A certificate of attendance for everyone who came, listing the workshops attended, delivered by link and by email; its QR code makes it verifiable.
What it does not do
Online-only check-in, by choice.
- No offline mode. Two phones checking in the same person without network would produce a conflict no rule resolves well; we prefer to require a connection and say so.
- No hardware badge reader: scanning uses the device camera. To print without a dialogue box, at the desk or the kiosk, the machine must run Chrome in kiosk mode.
Questions we get
- Is an app required?
- No. Check-in is a web page; it asks for camera access, like any online scanner.
- What if the network drops?
- Check-in stops, and says so. That is a deliberate decision: offline check-in reconciled afterwards produces duplicates you discover too late.
- Can someone scan without access to the rest?
- Largely, yes: the “front desk” role checks people in and looks up participants without changing anything. You can also remove its access to statistics and limit it to a single event.